32 Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors’ sins!(A)

33 “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?[a](B) 34 This is why I am sending you prophets,(C) sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues(D) and pursue from town to town.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:33 Lit escape from the judgment of gehenna

32 Go ahead, then, and complete(A) what your ancestors started!(B)

33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers!(C) How will you escape being condemned to hell?(D) 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify;(E) others you will flog in your synagogues(F) and pursue from town to town.(G)

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